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Sunday, April 28, 2013

This layout was in my "In Progress" pile for more than a year! The papers came in a kit I was given at a crop and I worked out the basic layout that night, but since I didn't have a photo I wanted to use, I set it aside. I am in the middle of shifting my scrap area to the other side of the basement and when I "found" it again, I knew I wanted to scrap a photo of my daughter at her school Field Day!

I had fun playing with all kinds of Want2Scrap products to finish it off - charms, bling, stencils and silhouettes! Here you can see how I trimmed one of the silhouette frames to create an accent for the top of this element...

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Today is the Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington DC - so I thought I would share a layout from a previous years' visit - one of my favorite family traditions!

I printed up wallet-sized pictures to squeeze as many photos (and memories) as possible onto one page! The paper is from the For The Record Collection by We R Memorykeepers. I picked it up on a recent shopping trip to Scrapbooks Plus in Chantilly and it is loaded with great details that make it fast and easy to document your memories. It is such a versatile collection - I love it!

One of my favorite Want2Scrap®
products is the Fancy Chipboard Words and I chose to use (2) of them,
Family and Traditions, to create a really easy and striking title.

The
background paper has some star elements and I altered one of the
Nestaboard Stars Five to create a dimensional embellishment.

There are more details for this project on the Want2Scrap blog.
Well, you can see I still need to add the journaling and the date, so I'd better get busy!

Friday, April 5, 2013

Welcome to Moxxie's April Muse-A-Palooza Blog Hop! We have a grungy, icy, rough, real hockey collection to share...and you could win the entire Hockey collection! Check it out - the neutral black, white, and gray color scheme - with occasional pops of blood red (we are talking hockey, after all!) - will look great with your pictures no matter what color jersey your team is sporting!

The diecuts and stickers have customized quotes and expressions to help you capture the action on the ice! To have a chance to win, you need to:

Follow the hop through all ten participating blogs, check out the beautiful work of the Moxxie Muses, and leave a comment for each of them.

International fans are welcomed to play along if they agree to pay shipping in the event of their win.

I am very excited to show you my project this month! Moxxie fans will remember that we ran a little contest on our Facebook page because I did not have any hockey pictures. The prize was a layout designed by me. The winner was Linda and she very generously shared pictures and journaling from her son's 14th birthday party!
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Click on any image to see a larger view.

I fell in love with a photo she had of her son lying on the ice at sunset, so I used Photoshop to journal directly on the picture and printed it out as an 8"x10". I created the title with Thickers....

...and doubled up the borders from the Diecut Sheet. The Penalty Box ticket is also a Die Cut!

One of my favorite features is at the center bottom of the layout. The base of each page is Moxxie's Slapshot paper, which features the image of a hockey player in the bottom left corner. On the right hand page I used my kraft knife to partially cut out the hockey player so I could slip papers and die cuts behind it. On the left page I added a rhinestone flourish.

The Swirls Finesse from Want2Scrap looks like the hockey player is kicking up some ice as he skates by, don't you think?

Linda sent me several great pictures from that day on the ice so I printed them up in different sizes and matted them with black cardstock. I was really happy to be able to incorporate several more pieces from the Hockey Diecut Sheet on the right hand page. Here is a group shot with one of my favorite quotes, "Give Blood, Play Hockey."

The centerpiece of the page is a circular die cut with a clever play on words, "What's life without goals?"